Alice Miller's "For Your Own Good".

Alice Miller was a psychologist born in Poland. She studied Freudian theory until explorations of her psyche via water colors led her to the beginnings of uncovering the truth of her tragic childhood. She began to take Freud's work in a different direction, focusing on the impact of events in childhood on the later years and abandoning such things as 'drive theories'. Her work has helped countless people free themselves from the repetition compulsion, that is, the compulsion to repeat one's own abuse by inflicting it on innocent victims in the name of justice, morals, or "childrearing". It is through study of the past that we come to understand the roots of neuroses.

"For Your Own Good" is available online to read for free here: http://www.nospank.net/fyog.htm This comes with a trigger warning, as accounts of child abuse, drug abuse, and the deeds of serial killers are detailed within.

It is interesting to note the influence of Christian morals on poisonous pedagogy; the use of shame, humiliation, guilt, fear, and force to instill complete obedience and a model of mindless conformity. Like we are impelled  to obey God without questioning, the child is impelled to obey hir parents without questioning.

 "One of the vile products of a misguided philanthropy is the idea that, in order to obey gladly, the child has to understand the reasons why an order is given and that blind obedience offends human dignity. Whoever presumes to spread these views in home or school forgets that our faith requires us adults to bow to the higher wisdom of Divine Providence and that human reason must never lose sight of this faith. He forgets that all of us here on earth live by faith alone, not by cogitation. Just as we must act with humble faith in the higher wisdom and unfathomable love of God, so the child should let his actions be guided by faith in the wisdom of his parents and teachers and should regard this as schooling in obedience toward the Heavenly Father. Anyone who alters these circumstances is flagrantly replacing faith with presumptuous doubt and at the same time overlooking the nature of the child and his need for faith..." [L. Kellner (1852), quoted in Rutschky]